SHORT TAKES : $200-Million Art Theft to Air

The television show “America’s Most Wanted” will broadcast a re-enactment of the theft of artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, as part of the effort to solve the $200-million crime.

At the urging of the FBI, museum officials allowed camera crews this week to recreate the March 18 crime, using actors to play the thieves and museum guards and enlarged photographs of the artwork made from museum slides.

The weekly series on the FOX network re-creates unsolved crimes and provides telephone numbers for viewers to call in with tips.

John Kavanaugh, the segment’s producer, said the FBI, police and museum officials worked together to piece together details of the crime in which two men posed as police officers, bound two museum guards and made off with 13 works thought to be worth more than $200 million.

Composite drawings of both thieves will be shown during the program, tentatively scheduled for broadcast May 13.